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Stop $600 Million in Foster Care Cuts - Action Needed Immediately
Target: U.S. House of RepresentativesSponsored by: American Humane Association
On
Wednesday, February 1st,
Congress will vote on the budget reconciliation bill, which may
cut $600 million in foster care and other pro-family programs.
These cuts include funding for programs that children and families depend on,
including Medicaid, child support enforcement, and student
assistance.
These children are defenseless against political whims, and this is our last opportunity to protect America's children.
Title IV-E Foster Care is a vital safety net for America's children. This financing is used for programs that ensure children receive the care they need, and to assist children who have been abused or neglected. Furthermore, programs designed to intervene before at risk children are forced to enter the foster care system will be severely impacted.
The true cost of these cuts will be in the lives of children - those who are already the most vulnerable. Those children will suffer from the lack of safe, nurturing foster care simply because relatives and others who love them can no longer afford to care for them. Those children may be separated from loved ones, important programs will be damaged, and children with special needs wonÂ’t receive appropriate treatment.
This vote will be extremely close and this is the last opportunity to tell your Representative in Congress not to desert America's children.
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We signed the “Stop $600 Million in Foster Care Cuts - Action Needed Immediately” petition!
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Foster children are a tremendously at risk population. Please do not make their lives any more difficult than they already are by cutting aid to programs that assist them.
# 16,752:
As a foster parent with children in my home I can not imagine making any cuts anywhere. What right does anyone have to deny these children of anything more in there lives. They need the money in this state to allow them to become successful adults or we will be repeating the same problem.
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Don't cut the kids!
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The children in foster care deserve our support & complete funding. And we need more money to hire sufficient Child Protective Service workers.
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Children need Foster homes - and Foster parents need help to help these children!
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I have been a Foster Parent, due to budget cutbacks my child was unable to receive all the benefits she needed to assist her in becoming a responsible adult. There are to many foster children who need besides a home many additional services that cannot be provided except at the expense of the Foster Parent. Many Foster homes/parents are already at poverty level and can barely afford their own family survival. Add the burden of another to care for and decrease the benefits for the foster child; this then becomes a criminal act for the poor foster child. Remember more lower socio-economic families take in foster children not wealthy.
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Where would these children be without the selfless people who welcome them into their homes and give them a roof over their heads, food on their plate and most importantly - unconditional love.
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Those children without parents belong to all of us. We must provide for them in the form of funding to meet their needs. These are the future lawyers, construction workers, doctors, chefs, and senators. We need them to have solid families and education. Do not allow these funds to be cut. Bring our young men and women back from Iraq and use the money where it will make a real difference.
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What, I ask, do you know about High Fructose Corn Syrup, HFCS? The widespread use of this product, a result of excess corn production, plays a major role in risk factors related to pre-diabetic conditions in children and adults. And, diabetes, as you MUST know, is epidemic. HFCS is a cheap sweetner that adds enzymes to corn syrup and thus converts the glucose into fructose. Because HFCS is cheaper than cane sugar, the use of this product has increased ten fold. Generally associated with soft drinks, this product is found increasingly in many foods that are processed, and these include juices, jams, condiments (katsup) and more. The over-consumption of refined carbhoydrates contributes to those conditions that lead to the inability of the body to manage insulin, to weight gain, obesity, risk of diabetes, and much more. I urge you to take right action now for our children and youth.
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If this nation can afford Billions of Dollars for a non-winnable war, and for tax cuts for Corporations and Billionaires/Millionaires, then we should be able to spend millions on future members of our society to help them to become GOOD members of the society.
# 16,713:
Makes good sense to promote "pro-life" agenda, yet cut aid to poor children. Cut education funding so that I as a poor, single person struggling to take care of my family, struggling to get an education so that I can reach the so called "American Dream", yet this administration cuts funding to help me and other citizens of this country achieve that goal. Funding such as child support enforcement, education spending, medicaid and now foster care. All these cuts effect real people, and I am one of those real people. The hypocrisy of the right is unbelievable.
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This is an outrage...america is the most developed country in the world. Bush can hand out money when he wants to fuel is war but cant afford to look after innocent children. DO THE RIGHT THING MR. GALLEGLY!
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This is an outrage...america is the most developed country in the world. Bush can hand out money when he wants to fuel is war but cant afford to look after innocent children
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